i dont exercise

[yvettemelissa]

i dont exercise..
and i need to.

should i start out at 20mins, 30?

what do yal think?

ugh..its so hard for me to get up in the mornings early, (even tho its best time)

even at night, i cannot be bothered.
ugh

[GreenAlice]

If you hate exercise, exercising will be the cure to that, 'cos the more you do, the better you feel and the more you wanna do. I'd suggest you buy a little trampette - stick it under your bed. Have a quick cuppa when you wake, then pull it out, stick a CD (I Pod) on, and bounce to some of your fave upbeat music for just twenty minutes each morning before you shower and breakfast. In the evening, always make sure you have your exercise togs to hand, to slip straight into as soon as you crawl outa bed. Make it as easy as possible for yourself to get it done in the morning, 'cos if you leave it till the evening, you'll never get around to it, at least not unless you're already enthusiastic!

[sunshinegal]

I would stick with 20 minutes of whatever you decide to do for the first week or so. You are going to get sore easily because this is new to your body. This is also a good introduction into working out rather then doing something for 45 minutes and getting bored or thinking working out isn't for you.

I recently started training my fiance and he has lost over 100 pounds. He started with light weight training 3 days a week and 45 minutes of cardio 3 times a week. The only reason he started out this high is because he has exercised for years in his past. He really just needed direction and a meal plan.

I would recommend heading outside to walk/jog (or rollarblade or skate...whatever you can do) for 20 minutes. Start with a 5 minute warm up, jog for 30 seconds, walk for 3 minutes, job for 30 seconds and so on. This is a good way to get your heart rate up without overdoing it. The mini trampoline is a good idea or getting a jump rope or jogging in place. If you get a gym membership there are plenty of cardio machines you can use there.

You will want to get into weight training too as it will help you build muscle which will allow you to lose more weight and up your metabolism. Grab a magazine or a book on how to correctly weight train and the different exercises.

Hope this helps!

[jAded]

The 2 suggestions above are really good. Also try and incorporate some incidental exercise (if planning incidental exercise makes sense) into your day. On days I don't do any formal activity, I walk to and from work which is about a 75 minute round-trip and is nice and relaxing and doesn't feel like "working-out".

[karenlovessnow]

I agree with everything posted here. I would say, start out with whatever you can handle. If that means only ten minutes, then so be it. Hopefully, once you get started, you will get into a routine and increase accordingly. Some days I hate exercising so much that ten minutes of any exercise is all I can handle. If I break it up into three ten minute sessions, like stretching/pilates, then the trampoline, then the treadmill, I feel like at least I've done something. I was walking 2-3 miles every day, some of it uphill, before work when the weather was warm. It became such a habit that if I missed one day I was upset. Now that it's colder, I haven't walked in two weeks. Trying to exercise inside is such a bore for me so it's a real effort to get started. Try and find something that you will like to do. It will make it that much easier to stick with it. Good luck!! :hamster:

[Veggily]

just to make you feel better, i'll fess up that i started at 5. i'm up to 20 now, though. slowly but surely... (oh, wait a minute, the "surely" part hasn't happened yet.)

[GreenAlice]

D'you know, thinking back a long time ago, I remember when I started exercise as a teen, who HATED school sports so much that any exercise seemes deeply unpleasant. But I decided to hop on an old exercise bike ten minutes every other day, and do another ten minutes worth of sit-ups, push-ups & squats on alternate days. It worked because it became a habit. A couple of weeks later, I upped it to fifteen minutes, then a couple of weeks later twenty and so on.

Exercise first became a habit, then it became a pleasure..

[yvettemelissa]

hrm yeah this is true about making it a habit.
see i CANNOT get up early in the mornings- and i like that time for 'cleansing' and eating lightly, and doing light work.
but i am up way late always at night, hav dinner around 8 then its just lazing about until 11 or so.
should i just exercise at night?
man its soooo hard to get into it. lol i keep procrastinating!

[sunshinegal]

I workout at night, about 30 minutes after I eat dinner.

[Starblossom]

I am a night owl too, and exercising in the morning is impossible for me. So I would agree that it's not good to try and force yourself into a morning exercise routine if you know that you simply will not do it. I used to try so hard to be one of those early morning runners, but I just can't do it and now I work out in the afternoon or evening.

Try incorporating exercise into your daily routine. If you're a student and you find yourself with a couple of hours between classes, go to the gym between classes since you have to stay on campus anyway. If you work until 5pm (or 4, or 6, or whatever) stop off at the gym before you go home. If you live close enough to your work or school (i'm not sure what you do), you could run or bike into work/class.

OR sign up for something fun, like join a soccer team or take up a yoga class or dancing class. Most of these things take place in the evening and if you've paid for it, you'll want to make yourself go.